Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree national park is a desert park and located at the border of San Bernadino and Riverside counties in Southern California. It is named Joshua Tree (Yucca) forests native to the park. It covers a land area of 790,636 acres. Joshua Tree is a popular southern California location for amateur astronomy and stargazing, along with nearby Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Joshua Tree is well known for its dark skies, which are largely free from southern California's extreme light pollution. The park's elevation and dry desert air, along with the relatively stable atmosphere in southern California, often make for excellent astronomical observing conditions.